Discovering Ancient Greek and Latin

Course learning outcomes

After studying this course, you should be able to:

• explain why Greek and Latin are referred to as classical languages
• understand some of the distinctive features of Greek and Latin and some features they share in common with other languages
• understand why an English translation cannot represent a passage of Greek or Latin word for word
• contrast the role of word order and word endings in Greek and Latin with those in English
• explain the terms case, declension and (for Latin only) conjugation.